[PATCH 07/26] lucid: filter empty argspec validation tasks

From: Daniel Gomez <[email protected]>

Ansible injects a synthetic Validating arguments against arg spec None
task for every role in a playbook even when the role defines no
argument spec, as documented in ansible/ansible#82505. On tag-filtered
kdevops runs these synthetic tasks fire unconditionally and flood the
screen with header lines the user cannot act on, because the upstream
issue has not been fixed.

Short-circuit v2_playbook_on_task_start when the task name matches the
synthetic marker, recording it to the log for audit completeness but
skipping header emission, state updates, and play-header flushing.
Real tasks in the same play continue to trigger the play header the
first time they run, so nothing visible to the user is lost.

Generated-by: Claude AI
Signed-off-by: Daniel Gomez <[email protected]>
---
 callback_plugins/lucid.py | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/callback_plugins/lucid.py b/callback_plugins/lucid.py
index 8be912c1..856a918b 100644
--- a/callback_plugins/lucid.py
+++ b/callback_plugins/lucid.py
@@ -434,8 +434,18 @@ class CallbackModule(CallbackBase):
 
     def v2_playbook_on_task_start(self, task, is_conditional):
         """Task started"""
+        task_name = task.get_name().strip()
+
+        # Suppress empty arg spec validation tasks injected by Ansible for
+        # every role regardless of tag filtering (ansible/ansible#82505).
+        # Still flush the play header in case real tasks follow.
+        is_empty_argspec = task_name == "Validating arguments against arg spec None"
+        if is_empty_argspec:
+            self._write_to_log(f"TASK: {task_name}")
+            return
+
         self._flush_play_header()
-        self.current_task_name = task.get_name().strip()
+        self.current_task_name = task_name
         # Initialize with play hosts so display is stable from the start
         self.current_task_hosts = list(self.play_hosts) if self.play_hosts else []
 

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